Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

If you want the truth rather than merely something to say, you will have a good deal less to say.

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.

Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.